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Job Opportunities at the Internet Archive

Part-time Accounts Payable assistant

Responsibilities & Duties:

  • Timely and accurate processing of:
  • vendor's bills
  • petty cash expenses
  • credit card charges
  • employee expense reimbursements.
  • Reconciliation of vendors accounts
  • Resolving billing issues

    Ongoing Department filing as needed.

    Any special project assigned by Dept. Head.

    Must have:

  • excellent command of English
  • deep knowledge of quickbooks premier 2012.
  • Solid accounting knowledge.

    2-3 hours twice a week preferably Tuesday & Thursday

    This is an excellent position for an accounting major student.

    This is a part time position only.

    To apply or learn more: Please send your resume and cover letter to jennifer at archive dot org with the subject line "Part-time Accounts Payable assistant".

    The Archive thanks all applicants for their interest, but advises that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please!

    We are an equal opportunity employer.

    Technical Lead for Archive-It.org

    The Internet Archive, a 501(3)(c) non-profit with a mission to provide 'universal access to all knowledge,' is looking for a smart, collaborative and resourceful engineer to lead (and do) development of the next generation of the Archive-It service, a web based application.

    Primary responsibilities would be to extend the success of Archive-It, a web archiving service that librarians and archivists use to create collections of digital content, and then make them accessible to researchers, scholars and the general public. Widely considered to be the market leader since its' inception in 2006, Archive-It's partner base has archived over five billion web pages and over 260 terabytes of data. http://archive-it.org

    Working for Archive-It program's director, this position has technical responsibility to evolve this service to include archiving social network sites and dynamic content while still being straightforward enough to be operated by hundreds of users with minimal technical skills.

    Our current system is primarily Java based and we are looking to help build the next-generation of Archive-It using the latest web technologies. The ideal candidate will possess a desire to work collaboratively with a small internal team and a large, vocal and active user community; demonstrating independence, creativity, initiative and technological savvy, in addition to being a great programmer/architect. A primary responsibility would be to help build and manage the technical team.

    The ideal candidate will have:

  • Experience building and motivating small tech teams to build web applications
  • 5+ years work experience in Java and Python web application development
  • Experience with Hadoop, specifically HBase and Pig
  • Experience developing web application database back-end (SQL or NoSQL).
  • Good understanding of latest web framework technologies, both JVM and non-JVM based, and trade-offs between them.
  • Strong familiarity with all aspects of web technology and protocols, including: HTTP, HTML, and Javascript
  • Experience with a variety of web applications, machine clusters, distributed systems, and high-volume data services.
  • Flexibility and a sense of humor
  • BS Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

    Bonus points for:

  • Experience with web crawlers and/or applications designed to display [archived] web content (especially server-side apps)
  • Open source practices experience
  • Experience and/or interest in user interface design and information architecture
  • Familiarity with Apache SOLR or similar facet-based search technologies
  • Experience with the building/architecture of social media sites

    To apply or learn more:

    Sound interesting and exciting, but you don't know much about web archiving and what it involves? Please sit-in on one of our informational webinars, held every other Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. http://www.archive-it.org/contact-us to register

    Please send your resume and cover letter to kristine at archive dot org with the subject line "Tech Lead Archive-It".

    The Archive thanks all applicants for their interest, but advises that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please!

    We are an equal opportunity employer.


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